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Report: U.S. set to buy hundreds of millions of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to share
The Biden administration reportedly plans to purchase and share with the world hundreds of millions of doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The Washington Post reported today that the U.S. has plans to make another large purchase of COVID-19 vaccines, although details of the deal have not been made clear. Neither the White House nor Pfizer…
Panasonic acquires autonomous supply chain firm Blue Yonder
Panasonic (TYO: 6752) has announced that it has wrapped up its acquisition of Blue Yonder, a supply chain management company established in Scottsdale, Arizona. Both companies had similar plans for developing autonomous supply chain technology. The partnership will pair Panasonic’s sensing technology with the edge computing and machine learning capabilities of Blue Yonder. Having acquired…
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Noble expands its services for its clients into Human FactorsHuman Factors + (HF+) is a natural extension of Noble’s deep understanding of the patient experience relative to self-administering drug…
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Public Citizen sues FDA over Propecia side effects
The nonprofit watchdog group Public Citizen has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Post-Finasteride Syndrome Foundation (PFSF), which, in 2017, petitioned the FDA to pull the hair loss drug Propecia (finasteride) from the market. The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, asks the court to force FDA to issue…
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Steris launches two new vaporized hydrogen peroxide biodecontamination systems
Steris has launched the next generation of its vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) biodecontamination systems to achieve 6-log bioburden reduction in good-manufacturing-practice pharmaceutical, medical device and research environments. It’s possible to integrate the new VHP 100i and 1000i systems into a facility’s building automation and HVAC systems, running a decontamination cycle at programmed intervals or at…
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Panasonic acquires autonomous supply chain firm Blue Yonder
Panasonic (TYO: 6752) has announced that it has wrapped up its acquisition of Blue Yonder, a supply chain management company established in Scottsdale, Arizona. Both companies had similar plans for developing autonomous supply chain technology. The partnership will pair Panasonic’s sensing technology with the edge computing and machine learning capabilities of Blue Yonder. Having acquired…
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Gilead identifies counterfeit versions of two of its HIV drugs
Gilead Sciences (NSDQ: GILD) has announced that it has identified tampered and counterfeit versions of its HIV drugs Biktarvy and Descovy in the U.S. supply chain. Biktarvy is a blockbuster drug cocktail, raking up $7.26 billion in sales last year. 2020 sales of Descovy were $478 million. Foster City, Calif.–based Gilead said that unauthorized distributors…
